Podbit · The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
Anthropic has filed confidentially for its IPO at a $965 billion valuation, leapfrogging OpenAI's $850 billion. Galloway calls it 'the flippening' — and says momentum is now firmly on Anthropic's side.
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Rather than serving as traditional financial intermediaries, Galloway contends that Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan now function as engineers whose primary job is to manufacture scarcity — restricting IPO allocations so that demand reliably exceeds supply and the stock surges on day one [1] — Scott Galloway "Modern investment banks are engineers, not bankers. They manufacture scarcity around IPOs to guarantee a 20% first-day pop — Galloway predi…" 02:45 . He cites his own prediction of a 20% first-day SpaceX pop (it came in at 21-23%) as evidence that the formula is predictable. The IPO itself, he argues, is primarily a 'once in a lifetime branding event' — the opening-day headlines and the number that gets splashed across CNBC is what matters. This reframe from 'capital raising event' to 'brand spectacle' has implications for how to read the coming OpenAI and Anthropic listings.
Anthropic has confidentially filed for its IPO with a valuation of approximately $965 billion, surpassing OpenAI's $850 billion valuation.
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Bhanu quit his first job after just 8 months, moved back to his parents' house to cut costs, and started building. One product sold for $250K; the next hit $10K MRR in its first month.
90% of SiteGPT's Google search traffic comes not from the main product but from ~50 free tools Bhanu built. Each tool targets a low-competition keyword and funnels users back to the paid product.
50,000 monthly visitors become 200 leads, 60 trials, and roughly 15–24 new customers per month at ~$100 average revenue each. Add a $1,700–$1,800 LTV and you have a very healthy SaaS.
Start with a blank Ahrefs search, layer in keyword filters (include term, KD < 10, volume > 1,000), list candidates in Notion, design a CTA linking to your main product, then score by volume, difficulty, build effort, and product relevance. That's the whole playbook.
Marketing feels painful for most builders. Engineering as marketing flips the script: instead of writing cold emails or blog posts, you build things — and those things rank on Google forever.
Don't spend months perfecting before launch. Ship the core feature, get real users, and let their feedback dictate the product roadmap. Premature polish is a trap.
SiteGPT launched and hit $10,000 MRR within its first month. That momentum was so overwhelming that Bhanu sold his existing SaaS, Feather, for $250,000 to free up all his time.
PropGPT launched with 20 downloads a day and strong influencer marketing but hit a ceiling at $1,000–$2,000 MRR. High download numbers masked a critical flaw: almost nobody stuck around after the free trial ended.
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